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Now, as to why FSF may've thought ROMs are ok:

The purpose of Free Software is to remove a power imbalance between vendor and user.

If the vendor can change the software, but the user can't, that gives the vendor coercive power over the user.

So one might conclude that if firmware is in ROM, then vendor is as powerless to change it as the user, so there is no power imbalance.

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